No pictures of labor in the Department of Labor.

The Tea Party governor of Maine ordered murals removed from the state Department of Labor that depict labor.

He also ordered the names of rooms named for such labor leaders as Cesar Chavez taken off the doors of meeting rooms. No rooms in the Department of Labor can be named for laborers. The governor wants them to be named for “mountains or something.”

One of the current committee rooms is named after Frances Perkins, the U.S. labor secretary under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Perkins became involved in labor reforms following the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire that resulted in the deaths of 146 garment workers in New York City. 

Friday marks the 100th anniversary of that fire.

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